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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Clustering suggests multiple identical services (so usually servers) which the load balancer dishes out tasks to depending on the rules setup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Your statement suggests that you want to be able to have a shibboleth-protected service running behind a load balancer – and as the shibboleth SP needs to run
on each server behind the load balancer, you need to look at clustering it so each server has the same software/config and knows about the load balancer if you want to share the login status etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Unless I’m missing something?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dave Perry<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users-bounces@shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefan Rasmusson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 August 2014 14:35<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Shibboleth in a load balancer enveiroment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">But what I am insterested is not to cluster the Shib SP(this is for high availability for the SP). The service in my environment is clustered and I wounder how I should use Shiboleth here. Makes sense?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Stefan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On 11 August 2014 11:04, Peter Schober <<a href="mailto:peter.schober@univie.ac.at" target="_blank">peter.schober@univie.ac.at</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">* Matthieu Huin <<a href="mailto:matthieu.huin@enovance.com">matthieu.huin@enovance.com</a>> [2014-08-11 10:59]:<o:p></o:p></p>
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> But I find the article a bit confusing and I'd be happy to hear more<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Hard to improve the documentation based solely on vague statements<br>
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<span class="hoenzb"><span style="color:#888888">-peter</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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